44 Quotes About Algorithms

So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack,

The greater the uncertainty, the bigger the gap between what you can measure and what matters, the more you should watch out for overfitting - that is, the more you should prefer simplicity

An algorithm is like a recipe.

The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms

Algorithms are called the aunties. They’re self-organising and so nobody fully understands them. Pg145

The likelihood that computer algorithms will displace archaeologists by 2033 is only 0.7 per cent, because their job requires highly sophisticated types of pattern recognition, and doesn’t produce huge profits. Hence it is improbable that corporations or government will make the necessary investment to automate archaeology within the next twenty years.

So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely; secondly, that humans will still be valuable collectively, but they will lose their individual authority, and will instead be managed by external algorithms. The system will still need you to compose symphonies,

Effective algorithms make assumptions, show a bias toward a simple solutions, trade off the costs of error against the cost of delay, and take chances.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.